PHIL 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hyle, Hylomorphism, Immanence
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Aristotle was taught by plato in his philosophy school. Alexander the great led the macedonian empire. When he died in 323 bce, the empire was almost to the boarder of india. Aristotle tries to make the world more understandable. Aristotle"s criticism nature as a whole but seeking the universal in these ethical matters . Socrates was busying himself about ethical matters and neglecting the world of. Saying that socrates only looks at ethics but not everything around him. Plato accepted his teachings, but held that the problem applied not to sensible. Aristotle"s criticism of the platonic theory of forms: things but to entities of another kind that he called ideas . If forms are transcendent - so separate and else from things, then . Sensible things are in fact not separate from forms. Forms exist but are in particular things (=immanent)